People compose poetry, novels, sitcoms - for love.
One thing I like about trying to write is that I can possibly write myself a role. Otherwise, you're at the mercy of whatever roles are out there that people are willing to give to you.
I love writing. I feel more connected to that than I do a lot of the other things.
Lyrics is commissioned work, it is my profession. But poetry is my statement to life.
I'm very unhappy when I'm not writing.
If you do not breathe through writing, if you do not cry out in writing, or sing in writing, then don't write, because our culture has no use for it.
I'm one of those people who has to write. If I don't write, I feel itchy and depressed and cranky. So everybody's glad when I write and stop complaining already.
I consider writing practice a true Zen practice because it all comes back at you. You can't fool anyone because it's on the page.
I like to write. I love to write. But I write just for myself and my own pleasure.
I wrote in my first book that I was broken, and now it just makes me mad every time. This is why writing words in books is so precarious. This is why Jesus only wrote in the sand, right? I just - I hate that I wrote that.
It's absolutely essential to my life. I don't know what I would do if I didn't write.
I don't use my writing career as a vehicle to get me acting work or to write roles for myself.
Writing helps me create a different world that I can escape to.
I don't know why I started writing. I don't know why anybody does it. Maybe they're bored, or failures at something else.
I'm an emotional sort of person in general and I have a vivid imagination, so I feel the whole spectrum of emotion strongly when I write.
I think that the practice of writing every day was what made me remember that writing doesn't have anything to do with publishing books. It can be totally separate and private - a comforting thought.
If I went for too long without writing, I would start to feel like something inside me was dying.
Authors are ordinary people who usually start to live apart, in the imagination, because they don't fit in with normal, healthy people.
I don't know what I would do if I didn't write.
I learned the enormous power of writing for yourself, especially now that people seem to be receptive to the fact that women can write.
I write because I can't imagine not writing.
I don't exorcise anything with my writing. I'm sure people do, but I don't.
I write and have done so primarily for personal pleasure.
It doesn't cost me anything to write some fun stuff for folks, because I just really enjoy a challenge.
I have experienced healing through other writers' poetry, but there's no way I can sit down to write in the hope a poem will have healing potential. If I do, I'll write a bad poem.
